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I found the "mystery image" on a kodachrome page. The tag says: S Kingsley Dr, between 3rd & 4th, Los Angeles, 1940s |
:previous: Which 'mystery' photo WCFTM? -your link shows gigabyte thingys & such.
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'mystery' wooden footbridge.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/cR5OdZ.jpg eBay / SOLD May 2014. I'm doubly curious about this small 'shelter'. (i believe there are steps leading up to it) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/J2ptJJ.jpg detail The only wooden pedestrian bridge that comes to mind is the one that stretched between Spring and Broadway over the Cornfield Yards north of downtown. this one. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/GEFiUD.jpg https://lacreekfreak.wordpress.com/tag/cornfield/ & it ain't it. __ I'm outta' town for a few days. Have fun noirishers! |
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Here is a link to the photo on the kodachrome site: [URL="http://67.media.tumblr.com/aaeec5a9553db89c56d6b12b329f7f2b/tumblr_o85zts1FDo1ruy2n6o1_500.jpg"] |
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....if you're still looking for her in the group, here she is circled.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/EVMowO.jpg The article doesn't say, but Ralph Waldo Emerson Jr. High is located on Selby Avenue in Santa Monica. (directly behind the massive Mormon Temple) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/4AhYi7.jpg google_aerial I haven't decided yet which building the students were posed in front of. __[/QUOTE] im pretty sure its near the main entrance. I went to Webster but was suppose to go to Emerson, most of my friends did go, and from what i remembered about EJH was the hallways were very low, especially on the second floor of the main building. Webster had an outdoor hallway system and although a decade or so newer than EJH the Auditorium was the same. |
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This view is looking south towards San Pedro. The railroad bridge is at the lower right. The Seminary Stop shelter is just out of the picture at the lower right. The Dominguez Adobe is at the top....the Claretian Seminary is opposite it. I've been inside all of these buildings. The chapel is in the center, dorms and classrooms are at each flanking end of the Seminary building. . http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps8t57hwsd.jpg Water&Power Dr. Gregorio Del Amo is flanked by Claretian priests at the 1927 opening of the Dominguez Memorial Seminary in 1927. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps07z9kqjq.jpg (Photo: Del Amo Estate Company) Seminary chapel http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psngbsxiwb.jpg latinmass LA Historical notes: Upon Manuel’s death in 1882, and the passing of his wife one year later, the Rancho lands were partitioned among his six surviving children, all daughters. Three of the married daughters continued the Dominguez legacy through the Carson, Del Amo and Watson families. All of the daughters made major donations to the construction of St. Vibiana’s, the former Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. In 1922, the two remaining daughters, Susana Del Amo and Reyes Dominguez, deeded seventeen acres adjacent to the family home to the Claretian Missionaries. In 1924, the Claretian Missionaries began using the adobe home as a graduate school for Claretians and later as a seminary. In recognition of this contribution to the Claretians, special arrangements were made to allow Susana and Gregorio Del Amo to be buried in a crypt beneath the altar of the chapel located in the modern day Claretian retirement home. |
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She didn't end up very far away, her final resting place at the Westwood cemetery is only about a 5 block walk away |
WeCanFixThisMess and HossC, thanks for pinpointing the
location of E_R's c. 1940's mystery slide at 320-326 S Kingsley Drive. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/XF9RC4.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Sli...3D162086846568 This slide brings up an interesting question: What makes a good photo? I can't for anything think why someone actually took this photo. At face value it's not really that good a picture. What was the photographer trying to capture? There's nothing really centered in it and none of the buildings are completely captured, the cars at the time of the photo would be incidental. (Can anyone date the cars to know if this was during WWII or afterwards?) There's no hint of movement--no people or pets (or is that someone sitting on the steps in front of the house across the street?), no drivers on the road, no wind movement, etc. Was the intention simply for the landscaping? Having said all that it's completely intriguing. It has the feel of something happening, or about to happen, and yet none of that is actually there. Then there's that slight fog or haze (or smog?) infused lighting in it. I have no way of knowing, but I get the feeling it was taken very early in the morning. The look has a damp feeling to me. The color is perfect. A good picture partly just comes from our own sensibilities and interests; makes us feel or think of things, not just for informational purposes. This unremarkable, but remarkable photograph sold for $40, so it's certainly getting attention; inviting us into it's world, that's so near and yet impossibly far, and inspiring more than the photographer probably ever envisioned with sentiments that I, too, feel, like this one: Quote:
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I think the fact that the present day viewer of this picture probably knows the area where the picture was taken, lends a lot of interest to the viewing experience. The transformation of the area is rather complete, and it is just a little astonishing to see this earlier (but not all that early) incarnation of the 300 block of S. Kingsley. I used to live a few blocks north on S. Ardmore, and this is certainly not the S. Kingsley I knew circa 1980-85. I love these color pictures of LA from the late 1940s.
I just googled the address. It appears that several of the pre WW2 buildings still survive on this block headed headed south towards Wilshire. Most of that area was built over into large three or four story apartment blocks back in the 1960s. Still there is a vastly different feel to this block today as compared to the picture. https://www.google.com/maps/place/32...2a9852!6m1!1e1 |
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I remember on a blog post sometime where the blogger posted an old WWII era photograph that her father had in his possession and showed her, and after numerous comments she remarked how there's so many photos like it that have perhaps been seen by two or three family members over the years since they were taken, then they get posted on the internet and they can be seen immediately by any number of people. One of the good things about the internet! |
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http://www.colapublib.org/history/gi...access/10b.jpg Image link above from the Carson Public Library [Courtesy of the Dominguez Ranch Adobe Museum] |
:previous: Thanks CityBoyDoug and StudioCityGuy!
That's the trestle all right. from SCG's link http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/AlvKzM.jpg http://www.colapublib.org/history/gi...access/10b.jpg here's my 'mystery' pic one more time. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/cR5OdZ.jpg eBay Welcome to the thread StudioCityGuy :) __ |
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I've often wondered about this building that's situated on a wedge of land at Sunset Blvd. and Golden Gate Avenue.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/338cwK.jpg gsv Well lo and behold, earlier today on eBay I found this Geo. E. Spain postcard that shows the building in 1922. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/rOE3xV.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/RPPC-Los-Ang...8AAOSwuhhXVMoQ I never expected to find a vintage postcard of this building! here's the reverse with sentiment http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/o3gMjS.jpg If you venture around back, there are some old timey windows facing Golden Gate Ave. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/vjq6Zb.jpg gsv __ for search purposes: Geo E. Spain Bldg. 3505 Sunset Blvd./ Sam Seelig Market / Birch's Pharmacy |
and there's this...
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/hC8xhl.jpg eBay seller's description: "1950 Los Angeles Transit Railway CA #460 'N' Line East of Vermont." Can anyone pinpoint the exact location of this photo? __ |
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Recently we had some images of the Santa Fe Hospital. Just to add to the NLA collection, here are two postcard pix of it from my archives. I had originally planned to include them in an "episode" of my Visit to Old Los Angeles and Environs (the orphanage episode), but had already become wary of making the site too elephantine, so trimmed out a lot of things which otherwise would be on one episode or another. |
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